A 2010 National Champion and three-time ACC Champion at the University of Maryland, Katie Gallagher concluded her first season as a volunteer assistant coach on the Saint Joseph's women's lacrosse coaching staff in 2015.
Gallagher returned to Hawk Hill after spending the 2014 lacrosse season as the coach at Eastern High School in Voorhees, N.J. She coached for SJU during the 2011-12 campaign under former head coach Denise Roessler.
A 2010 graduate of the University of Maryland, Gallagher was a three-year starting defender for a Maryland program that won three consecutive ACC Championships and the 2010 NCAA Championship. She earned ACC All-Tournament Team and All-ACC honors en route to 2011 Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coach’s Association All-American recognition. Gallagher was a four-year scholar-athlete at Maryland and earned an ACC Post-Graduate Scholarship.
"Our staff is fortunate to have Katie step in as our volunteer assistant," said head coach Alex Kahoe. "Katie's love for the game and commitment to excellence will benefit the program emensly as we take steps toward the future of the women's lacrosse program."
Gallagher currently coaches for Step Up Lacrosse, where she develops and presents material on collegiate athletes and recruitment and delivers lacrosse training and education to athletes in areas within Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia, Washington D.C., Oregon, California and New Jersey. She spent six years with Elevate Lacrosse Camps in Baltimore, working with top head coaches to develop summer league camps and seminars regarding the recruitment process in Division I lacrosse.
Gallagher earned a bachelor’s of science degree in behavioral and community health in December 2010 and went on to earn a bachelor’s of science degree in nursing through an ACE program from Drexel University in May 2013.
